非洲,其实离我们并不遥远。上世纪60年代,当中国被美国、苏联两大集团封锁,在国际上少有盟友之际,非洲成为中国的外交前哨;70年代,坦赞铁路修建成功,更是中非人民传统友谊的不朽丰碑。正如毛泽东所说,“非洲黑人兄弟把我们抬进了联合国。”21世纪的中非关系出现了新的色彩。中国在非洲的角色从朋友加革命输出者变成了朋友加交易者、投资者,也使中非关系出现了一系列新情况和新问题。 Africa, in fact, not far away from us. In the 1960s, when China was blocked by the two big groups of the United States and the Soviet Union, Africa became China’s diplomatic outpost on a time when there were few allied nations in the world. Successfully building the Tanzania-Zambia Railway in the 1970s was even more an immortalization of the traditional friendship between the Chinese and African peoples monument. As Mao Tse-tung said, “African black brothers carried us into the United Nations.” The 21st century’s Sino-African relations have taken on a new color. China’s role in Africa has changed from friend to revolutionary exporter to friend, trader and investor, and a series of new situations and problems have emerged in China-Africa relations.